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Dale Vince: We need to repatriate energy bills 25 September 2013 Ecotricity founder Dale Vince today called for Ed Miliband to go further than thoughts of a price freeze and consider either renationalising the energy industry, or introducing proper regulation. Vince said : “It’s not a short-term price freeze we need, it’s an overhaul of the entire industry – renationalising could well be a solution. We certainly need some way of repatriating our energy bills, of turning those bills into an updated grid and new sources of energy –rather than profits going out of the country through some of the Big Six, four of which are foreign owned. “It was taxpayer’s money that built our energy infrastructure, that built the grid in Britain, and the Big Six energy companies have profited greatly from it since privatisation. Well, now that infrastructure needs replacing, the privatised mo...